Christian Bogatu

Investment Director at German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND)

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Christian is a serial entrepreneur and investor. Since 2022, he serves as investment director at SPRIND, the German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (www.sprind.org), he identifies and supports innovators with radical ideas with a billion Euro SPRIND budget. From 2018 until 2024, Christian also served as Venture Partner for Eurazeo, the largest EU based Venture Capital fund, investing in cleantech startups. From 2017 until 2020 he was co-founder and CEO of Fresh Energy, generating unparalleled insights based on smart meter data, before selling Fresh Energy to EWE end of 2020. From 2011 until 2017 he was co-founder and managing director of KIWI (www.kiwi.ki), building a city-scale handsfree access-as-a-service system. Prior to KIWI, he co-founded Kirsen Global Security in the Silicon Valley that became global leader in container security and exclusive provider for DB Schenker. Christian has more than 5 years of experience as senior consultant with McKinsey. Christian holds/held several Board memberships: innogy (former RWE) Digital Transformation Board; German PropTech Initiative (GPTI); Vali Berlin - The Entrepreneurship Hub at ESMT Berlin; UC Berkeley BA International Diploma. Christian holds a Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in security technology and logistics and a master (Diplom) in chemical engineering from the University of Technology in Berlin, Germany.